South Africa must speedily address inequitable land ownership patterns to avoid Zimbabwe-style farm invasions, the International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned. The ICG, which deals with conflicts around the globe, said South Africa faced rising tension over land and should act quickly to avert a grabbing of farms.
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/ 4 September 2004
The influential Zanu-PF Women’s League has entered the Zimbabwean ruling party’s succession race and is now lobbying for a prominent woman politburo member to be nominated as vice-president during the party’s forthcoming December congress.
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/ 4 September 2004
The influential Zanu-PF Women’s League has entered the Zimbabwean ruling party’s succession race and is now lobbying for a prominent woman politburo member to be nominated as vice-president during the party’s forthcoming December congress.
Controversy surrounding Zimbabwean Information Minister Jonathan Moyo’s purchase of the Patterson farm in the Mazowe district has deepened amid disclosures that he violated government policy and set a bad precedent for land reform. Moyo is also entangled in a row over the subdivision of a farm in Hwange where illegal poaching is reported to be rampant.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s propaganda chief Jonathan Moyo was stopped in his tracks by the old guard of the ruling Zanu-PF when he tried to elbow his way into the top echelons of political power. Their move came as Moyo began openly to make a power play ahead of the party’s critical congress scheduled for December.
After exhausting the land reform programme theme as a vote-catching gimmick, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has embarked on an anti-corruption crackdown as yet another ploy ahead of next year’s parliamentary election.
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/ 13 February 2004
As the treason trial of Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), heads towards its conclusion, its effect on talks between the MDC and the ruling Zanu-PF is likely to loom large. Tsvangirai is charged with plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe.
With Southern African Development Community leaders having failed to grasp the nettle of the Zimbabwe crisis during their two-day summit in Luanda this week, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has urged the international community to step up diplomatic pressure on Harare.